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Smoked Salmon Chipotle-Lime Pitas

April 23rd, 2012 • In Light and Tight Series, Recipes, Seafood, Simple Classy Series

  Alone the ingredients are tasteful and nourishing but together they are unstoppable.  And where fresh vibrant colored produce go, sheer heaven is sure to follow especially if you bathe it in a lime citrus…

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Ravioli Salad

January 9th, 2012 • In Pasta, Simple Classy Series

Words are ubiquitous and so is food.  Sometimes I spend a questionable amount of time searching one word to center an entire thought or idea.   Ubiquitous, you have to agree is a very cool word…

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Confetti Salad

December 20th, 2011 • In Chicken, Pasta, Simple Classy Series

There’s something about pasta that just does it for me.  But then there’s something about food that has the same effect so I’m not sure I’m being totally unbiased in that statement.  Add some vibrant…

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Harvest Tomato Pasta

September 5th, 2011 • In Recipes, Simple Classy Series

Every year at just about this time I renew my obsession with tomato dishes particularly ones that include pasta.  But a good salsa and crushed tomato will send me to the kitchen for a marathon…

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Chicken Cacciatore

August 16th, 2011 • In Recipes

We ate.  We chugged. We laughed.  The tweet version of life.  Food is the center of every happening.  I know this well. After I had my children I dabbled in a few ideas I could…

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Pan Seared Tuna and Vegetable Salad

February 8th, 2011 • In Light and Tight Series, Recipes, Seafood

My sister rocks.  She decided months ago we would need an impromptu getaway somewhere in the near future filled with a little bit of pampering and whole lot of nothing pressing to do–a way of…

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Unscrambled Eggs And Spinach

November 29th, 2010 • In Light and Tight Series, Recipes

If eggs and leftovers decided to run away to Vegas and get hitched, this would be their someday baby.  A fresh combo bundle of joy. The thing about  the egg is that it’s so reliably…

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Potato and Genoa Salami Salad

November 9th, 2010 • In Beef, Recipes

I actually just got a tip from Cooks Illustrated today for cleaning the box grater after having grated cheese. It recommended grating a leftover piece of stale bread through it (same to clean a meat…

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Smoked Salmon Salad

September 29th, 2009 • In Light and Tight Series, Seafood, Simple Classy Series
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Summer Vegetable Goat Cheese Pizza

July 13th, 2009 • In Recipes

I must confess, I haven’t cooked for at least a week. The delicious weather has been screaming my name causing a bit of an upset in my get up and go button.  Today, however, I…